I liked the story of the first episode better - it was just more engaging and faster paced.. Unlike many other reviews here, I thought acting by the two main actresses here was very good. (I did not care for the actress in Episode 1 honestly). Maybe the problem is the acting by the secondary characters is average to poor for the most part - same for the first episode. But as someone whose old enough to remember the old version of Amazing Stories, it was basically the same deal as now. Strong leads and the rest was average at best.
I think both the lead actress here are in for better things.
Anyway, I do think the pay off here was a bit disappointing if still a bit twisty like most AZ stories are. Even the first story lead to where you did not expect in a bittersweet way. It was not the ultimate subject matter itself but rather that it seemed to brush over lightly said subject matter. The last line of the piece was excruciatingly lame.
Ha..and yep..some of the dialogue was a bit hard to decipher. Some sort of hood speak, but really the few lines like that weren't all that pertinent to the story to matter. .